#Difford&Tilbrook
Day 8: Aimee Mann - Long Shot

Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford of Squeeze guest on the 'I'm With Stupid' album; they don't play on this song, but Aimee's guitar part from 1:35 means they're here in spirit...

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Long Shot by Aimee Mann
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Agreed NG Difford and Tilbrook up there with the great songwriters of our time.
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
We've lost Gilson Lavis. The engine behind my favourite band for so many years. Could take anything that Difford and Tilbrook threw at him and knew just what to do to make it work. He was there right from "Packet of Three" to "Play". He could rattle those toms like nobody else. Oh, what a loss.
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Chris Difford, English singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer, founding member and songwriter of the group Squeeze, was born on Nov. 4, 1954. #ChrisDifford

Squeeze - "Hourglass" (Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook) (Live, 1988)
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Squeeze at Daytona Beach Hourglass 1988
YouTube video by Thomas Boynes
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November 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
#Howl-A-Ween

Day 14 - Creepy

Back to 1980, and another beauty from Difford/Tilbrook. Honestly, I have no idea how this one got past the BBC censor.

'Lazing about the beach all day, at night the crickets creepy'

Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze
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October 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Giving this 1984 “debut” a spin for #5debutalbums8084 Wikipedia says it “is often considered to be a Squeeze album in all but name”. But I needed a good excuse to listen to it. #johnsvinyl #nowplaying
October 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge
(𝟐𝟐𝟏) 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚’𝙨 𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙒𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙨
𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 & 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤 (𝐒𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞)
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October 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
#BlueZicos
#MusicChallenge
Wednesday: born in the 1950s

Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford.
Squeeze - Is That Love

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Squeeze - Is That Love? (TOTP 1981)
YouTube video by Top Of The Pops Redubbed
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September 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
First Cup of Coffee☕️, First Tune🎶 of the Day☀️

A Top 5 favorite. Never saw the whole band live, but I saw Difford & Tilbrook here on Cape at the Melody Tent in Hyannis. SUPERB!

Savor your coffee, enjoy the tune, and have a great day!

#FirstCupOfCoffeeFirstTuneOfTheDay

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Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (Live At The Regal Theatre, Hitchin / 1982)
YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO
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September 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A little bit of Difford & Tilbrook for you. Now playing...

Squeeze - Argybargy [A&M 1980]

...the 2008 deluxe 2CD reissue featuring bonus tracks, B-sides and the band live in concert at Hammersmith Odeon, 9th March 1980
November 30, 2024 at 10:43 AM
#MusicChallenge
#GoodAcoustics
Day 30

She Doesn't Have To Shave - Difford & Tilbrook (Squeeze)
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✌️✨Thanks for hosting, @lanc3goodthrust.bsky.social
Difford & Tilbrook - Pulling Mussels From a Shell + She Doesn't Have to Shave [Unplugged pt 1]
YouTube video by What's for afters?
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September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Great... thanks! I was disappointed with the Difford and Tilbrook record they made way back when.
February 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
It's the 66th birthday of the great Glenn Tilbrook, so as per TMBP tradition, I'll stay on brand & share some Beatles covers and connections in this little thread. He and Squeeze songwriting partner Chris Difford never liked being called the next Lennon/McCartney, yet it stuck 🧵
August 31, 2023 at 5:25 PM
one of my greatest joys was introducing the stepkid to the sheer genius of Difford & Tilbrook a couple years ago when she was visiting
May 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Glenn Tilbrook, lead singer and guitarist of the English band Squeeze, was born on Aug. 31, 1957. #GlennTilbrook

One of my favourite Squeeze songs:

Squeeze - "Hourglass" (Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook) (1987)
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Hourglass
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August 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Great Player of the Day
Appreciation posts for musicians who inspire me most.
Today I’m going with Chris Difford, best known as a founding member of Squeeze.
Beyond his skills as a songwriter, Difford provides Glenn Tilbrook with perfect support & really holds a song together.
#musicsky #squeeze
January 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
So pleased these @nickheyward.com solo
albums are finally going to have their time in the sun once more!😎 Each album chock full of quintessentially English pop songs, sugar coated with the DNA of Difford & Tilbrook, Partridge, Weller et al!👌🤩🤩🤩
#NickHeyward's wonderful three albums from the mid-90s are collected and expanded in 'The Epic & Creation Years 1993-1998' a new 4CD set. #Signed copies available! More info > bit.ly/3HLgL0G
August 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A fine recourse.

I have no Squeeze CDs, which is why I was surprised that out of nowhere this song was running through my head and I couldn't remember the words but I knew the pattern of it and I knew a voice, and after a couple of false trails I thought hold on, it's a Difford/Tilbrook song...
May 4, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Glenn Tilbrook on Cradle to the Grave: “We approached it with a blank slate.”

Opera choirs, last-minute gems like “Albatross,” and a “psychedelic take on mortality.”

45 years with Difford, still stretching Squeeze into new shapes.

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Squeeze's Glenn Tilbrook: “There’s a part of you that stays childlike”
Glenn Tilbrook on blank slates, mortality, and why Squeeze isn’t just nostalgia
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September 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
For a band with almost no constant line-up beyond songwriters Chris Difford (the low voice) and Glenn Tilbrook (the high voice and lead guitar), Gilson was on most of @squeezeofficial.com's top-tier work through the early '90s. Dig his swing on a great deep cut, 1989's "Melody Motel"
Melody Motel
YouTube video by Squeeze - Topic
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November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
And now for something completely different:

Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart (1980) 🥳
Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook - great songwriters 🎶

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Squeeze - Another Nail In My Heart (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SqueezeVEVO
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April 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I was going to say Difford and Tilbrook too.
October 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Such sad news. It's only reading Song By Song, where Difford and Tilbrook talk to the brilliant Jim Drury, that helps you understand how important Gilson was.
My favourite song remains Up The Junction, and the drumming on it is integral to its magic
RIP Gilson ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Difford and Tilbrook were such a brilliant songwriting team. And Glenn could play too—his solo on Another nail in my heart is one for the ages. Prince would have been chuffed with it!
February 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#favouritelyric for today - “I got a job with Stanley, he said I'd come in handy, and started me on Monday, so I had a bath on Sunday” #upthejunction #Squeeze #Difford #Tilbrook #greatmusic #greatlyrics
November 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM